Tag: child abuse

Aussie cyber-police detect child abuser in US state of Kentucky and raise the alarm. Child saved and abuser arrested.

Melbourne man was arrested after UK police alerted their Australian counterparts that he was communicating with 13-year-old for sexual purposes.

Man pretended to be a teenage social media celebrity and befriended young girls online. He then coerced them into sex acts.

Second person arrested this month by ABF for attempting to illegally import child sex dolls into the country.

Report warns that there are also dangers, particularly for girls, as new undersea cable enhances internet connectivity.

Two males aged 17 and 20 have been arrested in Northern Territory Outback communities for child abuse material.

Items were discovered when officers searched a package sent from China which was labelled as containing a display shelf.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Careful analysis of the full reasoning of the High Court is required to fully assess it. But, for now, this extraordinary outcome is strange justice indeed.

Court's decision to quash the child sex abuse conviction against Cardinal George Pell was unanimous.

Cardinal George Pell’s malevolent crusade against Pope Francis remains as vigorous as his disdain and notorious self-professed disinterest for victims of child sex abuse, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Save for a successful appeal in the High Court, Pope Francis will likely expel Pell from the priesthood. The family of the second survivor is suing him and or the church for civil damages, as may others.

"I was hoping for 20 (years) but realistically I thought maybe 10, but hey, he's incarcerated, he can't hurt anybody," says victim's father.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Keep Michael Jackson on the radio – but never play him without reminding listeners of what he has been accused of. Do the same with other artists similarly accused, or found guilty of, a crime.

Australia's most senior Catholic has been convicted of serious child sex offences. The trial concluded with the verdict handed down in December, but due to a suppression order Australia's media have only been able to report on it from today.

Speaking at his news conference, Turnbull said: “The survivors that I’ve met and the personal stories that have been told to me have given me but a small insight into the betrayal you experienced at the hands of the people and institutions who were supposed to protect and care for ...

OPINION: As news of the visit to Italy by VicPol detectives richochets around the world, let's hope they bring home the joyous gift of justice after their interview with Cardinal George Pell, says TESS LAWRENCE.

Lawyers for Catholic Church sex abuse victims are applying to the Royal Commission for leave for their clients to appear with Cardinal Pell in Rome, TESS LAWRENCE reports.

NSW police are considering having child sex-offenders chemically castrated.

A former Marist Brother head has denied to an inquiry that his role was to conceal rather than expose abuse.

Cardinal George Pell has issued a frank apology to victims of sexual abuse carried out by "priests, religious leaders and others" within the church.

The Australian Federal Police have helped crack a crime ring which streamed live internet videos of child sex abuse from the Philippines.

An inquiry into child sex allegations involving the Australian Catholic Church has heard it was considered possible to cure pedophile priests with counselling.

A team from Northern Ireland is travelling to Australia to meet with people who suffered abuse in UK institutions before being sent to Australia as children.

A former Sydney bishop says the Catholic Church needs to fundamentally change to address its abuse crisis.

Cardinal Pell apologises to inquiry for Catholic cover-up of child sex abuse and says church will pay compensation but not huge US sums.